Candidates for the Columbia County Commission District 3 seat gathered at the Performing Arts Center on Sept. 29 for a forum and answered a series of questions from the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia County News-Times and the audience. Here are excerpts from some of their answers:

Candidates for Columbia County House District 122 were at the Performing Arts Center on Sept. 29 for a forum and answered a series of questions from the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia County News-Times and the audience. Here are excerpts from some of their answers:

One of Augusta’s most successful restaurateurs is bringing a gourmet hamburger joint to Columbia County.

Sean Wight, owner of three popular restaurants on Broad Street in downtown Augusta, said this week he expects to open a second location of his Farmhaus Burger restaurant at a newly planned commercial development on Flowing Wells Road early next year.

Nine candidates, each hoping to fill a state or local seat in a November special election, faced off during a candidate forum Tuesday in Columbia County.

The candidates for the state House District 122 seat and the District 3 county commission seat gathered at the county Performing Arts Center for the forum sponsored by the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce and

Georgia Regents Medical Center was correctly awarded a license to build a 100-bed hospital in Columbia County, an administrative law judge has ruled.

Hearing Officer Ellwood F. Oakley III found University Hospital and Doctors Hospital of Augusta, who had submitted competing proposals to the Georgia Department of Community Health that were not accepted, did not meet the burden of proof to show that the required Certificate of Need was given in error to Georgia Regents in November 2014.